Avant garde facilities to assure innovative products and technologies prior to being transferred to the industry.
Main activity
Equipment and capacities of reference
- Medium frequency furnaces for melting ferrous alloys
- Electric furnaces for melting non ferrous alloys
- Vacuum furnaces for melting ferrous and non ferrous alloys
- Heat teatment furnaces (several environments and monitoring parameters)
- Directional Solidification Furnaces
- CoreShooter compatible with organic and inorganic binding systems, commetial ones or ad-hoc developed
- Sand Mixer
- Ablation technology facility
- Voxeljet VX1000 Printer
- Mixers for in-situ preparation
- Equipment to determine mechanical properties of green and chemical mixtures (resistance to bending, traction, compression, shearing, division)
- Molds for oblong and dog bone test tubes
- Equipment to determine the compatibility of green test tubes
- Active bentonite test
- Test specimen core shooter
- Thermolan®-Fe: Metallurgical Quality Control equipment for Iron Casting
- Kasandra®: AZTERLAN development for real time simulation of castings solidification processes
- Alu-Q®: Density and Oxide Analysis, D8 y D200
- Analysis of Filtered Microinclusions (Aluminum alloys)
- Non destructive testing: X-rays, tomography, ultrasounds, etc.
- FactSage: Thermochemical Database Software
- Thermo-Calc: Thermodynamic and properties calculations
- DICTRA (Thermo-Calc Diffusion Module): Simulation of diffusion-controlled reactions in multicomponent alloy systems
- TC-PRISMA (Thermo-Calc Precipitation Module) modelling of precipitation kinetics in multicomponent and multi-phase systems
- Sysweld: simulate thermal joining and heat treatment processes considering thermal, metallurgical, and mechanical phenomena
- ProCast: Simulation of casting processes and analysis of thermal flux solidification and metallurgical behavior
- QuikCAST: Simulation of casting processes and analysis of thermal flux solidification and metallurgical behavior
- Kasandra®: AZTERLAN development for real time simulation of castings solidification processes
- Metallic powder atomizer
- Ultrasonic seave
- Higrometer
- Hall funnel
- Ultrasonic cleaning chamber
- ATEX vacuum system
- MPG 200D magnetometer. 52A maximum current and 100V maximum voltage
- Double C Yoke Detection Sensor
- Epstein Frame Detection Sensor
- Single Sheet Tester Detection Sensor
Thermolan - Ferrous alloys quality assessment equipment
AZTERLAN researchers at AZTERLAN Pilot Foundry Plant
Heat treatments
Alu-Q aluminun metallurgical quality assessment equipment
Feeding systems design
Directional solidification furnaces
Vacuum furnace
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
Heat treatment furnaces
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
Non ferrous melting furnaces
Surface technologies
Atomization of metallic powder by means of ATO lab Plus equipment
Surface cleaning and preparation
Core specimen shooter
Prototypes and short run production
HydroSolidification technology - Ablation casting
Sandblasting of sand molds printed using additive technologies (3D)
Sand mixer
Tempering dilatometer
Surfaces
AZTERLAN magnetic properties testing equipmen
AZTERLAN researcher at AZTERLAN Pilot Foundry Plant
HydroSolidification technology - Ablation casting
Sand blowing 3D printed sand molds
3D sand printing (molds and cores)